Returning To Spirit - Residential School Reconciliation Inc.
Charitable organization · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 824958920RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($537,171) as filed with the CRA.
Returning To Spirit - Residential School Reconciliation Inc. is a charitable organization based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $528K in revenue and $537K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 18% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $133K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 28% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $196K in 2020 to $528K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $528K | $537K | $407K | — | — | $105K |
| 2023 | $449K | $446K | $340K | — | — | $114K |
| 2022 | $291K | $290K | $200K | — | — | $111K |
| 2021 | $180K | $245K | $164K | — | — | $111K |
| 2020 | $196K | $274K | $228K | — | — | $176K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $133K from 14 charities:
- Indigenous Reconciliation Fund$59K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$23K
- Johansen-Larsen Foundation$15K
- The Sisters of St. Joseph for the Diocese of Toronto in Upper Canada$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,411
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation$9,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- Ursuline Religious of the Diocese of London in Ontario$2,500
- The Community of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary$500
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$277
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$260
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$5
- Les Missionnaires Oblates de Saint-Boniface—
- The Sisters of Instruction of the Child Jesus—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$139K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mary Lemaitre (director); Richard Gagnon (director); Norma Macdonald (chair); Bertha Buddy Anderson (secretary); Margot Lavoie (vice chair); Glenice Smith-Mini (director); Gisèle Lapointe (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Returning To Spirit - Residential School Reconciliation Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 824958920RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.